Acknowledgements

Many thanks and much gratitude are owed to my wife Patricia in exhibiting the patience and tolerance necessary to live with the very considerable amount of down-time that I have expended hand-wrestling with various models of computers and their differing programme editions and to her vast amount of patience in reading, re-reading and reading again, for checking purposes, the evolving manuscript during the progression of this work.

Thanks are also due to Robert Gough of Bundaberg for applying local knowledge in reviewing preliminary material that had been accumulated on the early development of the Bundaberg region and to the Mellor brothers of Gayndah, William and John, for their research into the existence of photographs of the 1800s local to their area.

To Judith O’Shea for the kindly provision of her copy of An ABC of English Usage which provides scholastic, non-intuitive advice on the use of the much-dreaded apostrophe and some jolly helpful advice on the application of the extraordinarily useful colon.

To Kaerest Houston née Jorgensen for the donation of photographs from the Jorgensen family collection so that selected copies may be included in this work.

And especially to those early settlers many of whose names are not mentioned in this book who, together with their families, contributed to the pioneering endeavours that made the achievements as described in this book possible.